Monday, July 1, 2013

THE VULTURE / Homeric Films Ltd. - 1967

It's Monsterous Monday with Tabonga, here at The Dungeon!.. I dig this weird little flick for a number of reasons, like, it stars Chaney pal Broderick (GOLIATH AND THE DRAGON) Crawford and Dungeon fave, Robert (INVISIBLE INVADERS) Hutton.. It's British, has twisted science and a human sized vulture with a man's head, come on!! And, I got a new 1967 VW Bug that year.

This movie is unavailable on Amazon, DVD and VHS, I got this copy off TV 20 years ago.

Eegah!! sent over a soundclip from this flick for our listening enjoyment, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over there by the big old stuffed bird, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula! Here's our audio offering for... THE VULTURE!

It all starts when a lady is taking a short cut through the cemetary. She sees a giant bird come out of a grave and fly away, this coffin is now empty and's what the cops find when they get there.

Another cool part is the lady's hair has turned white!.. Overnight!! The 'mysterious man' shows up in her room at the hospital to give her a little word of advice!

It's all in the family when Robert meets Broderick after marrying niece Trudy. Sex used to be fairly formal back then!

Made to be hidden in the shadows, it's still fun to watch as Broderick's lifted off by the flying nightmare!

Robert and Trudy try and get their minds off the murder by going to the opera! It doesn't work.

The mysterious rap on the window!

Broderick's bro is next on the hit list!

Trudy has the discomfort and displeasure of spending some time with the creepy old Professor Hans Koniglich, AKA The Vulture!

Robert breaks into the professor's hidden science lab and discovers that old gold dubloons have something to do with the murders...

Robert shoots The Vulture after it kidnaps Trudy and takes her to it's caved lair on a sea cliff.

This is a cool part too, Robert uses an anchor to weigh down the wrapped body before he tosses it into the sea, so that no one will ever know that such a freak of science ever existed!

This movie is just the worst! Picked up a dupe at the comic con and the whole plot hinges on stuffy, British people being told to not go by any windows on account of the killer man-bird and they keep right on walking by windows!!!!

DWRAYGER DUNGEON PRESENTS: The Monster Movie Music Manifesto

Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Spy, Super-Hero, JD, Thriller and Noir films, that's what we like, and a recurring theme in a lot of those kinds of movies has always been music! There were rockin' clubs and cafes with cool jukeboxes, teen poolside parties with local bands, sometimes it was a seedy bar with a sleazy torch singer, a beatnik coffeehouse, maybe dancing somewhere in outer space, or some weird tribal ceremony on a cool secluded island with giant monsters running around, and you could count on it that a lot of the time there was smoking and drinking going on. It was a fun time!! A lot of movies also had quirky, swingin', jazzy or rockin' themes or credits, or maybe just some wild Psychotronic elements! We started with the music from 50's & 60's Monster Movies, but we later morphed into the new, bigger and better, Rock and Soul, 70's brevity, 80's maybes, 1940's Gorilla and Bela site from Hell! So, sit down, and take a load off, pour yourself a cool one, and order up something hot and greasy, because we have a lot of tasty tidbits on the menu, way outside the realm of good taste! If any of the postings just happen to step on anybody's toes, let us know & we will remove them immediately, if not sooner!! We recognize all formal copyrights, and do this solely to support and promote the films featured! This forum is only being presented in a critical and scholarly critique, and should not be construed as anything else. It's just all for Fun & Historical Education in an effort to keep bad taste alive forever!!! If the words and pictures pique your interest, then please go out & buy, or rent the movies, wherever you can find them! All soundclips are approximately two minutes long, or just enough to give you a feel for the movie! When we post a sound clip, it will only stay up 30 days or less! These days, after getting hassled time and time again, we don't even do soundclips much anymore!!

Here are some good places to start your search for hard to find cult films on the internet:

TRASH PALACE!

CULT ACTION!!

When it comes to movies, the name of this site speaks for itself!

1980's CASSETTE CULTURE

Hear What You Missed The First Go Round!

BSC MUSIC

If you would like to hear more amazing music from composers like Peter Thomas and Martin Böttcher, then do yourself a favor and check out BSC Music! There Are Still Places In The World To Buy Cool Music!